Influence
Clayton Francis and Kleopatra Klausnner have joined the Lighthouse AR team here in London. Clayton will be leading our business development work, with a particular focus on software and systems vendors. Kleopatra is a researcher for our Beacon service, which includes the AR Intranet. Clayton has a decade-plus background in corporate business development and sales,…
We’re continuing to warm to Redmonk, and their interview with John Simmons touches on some interesting points that were also discussed at the Forrester AR Council in Lisbon this month, where I was one of the panel speakers. I’m planning to post my notes next week, but John’s insight already touches on a wider range…
CA is the highest profile mover this month. It has gained 3 positions and is now ranked at the 4th spot. The firm has been rated as “strongly positive” by Gartner in the records management software market. Symantec has now launched its new Symantec Online Fraud Protection service. It has moved up 4 positions and…
Carter says “Whoa, I think people are going a little overboard on the IIAR “Analyst of the Year” survey“. I think he has a point. We commented here that the results are a useful measure of analysts relations managers perceptions of analyst firms. At the same time, one must think about what the results really…
As recession edges closer a number of analysts are being tempted by better offers elsewhere. Some of the recent departures in the UK include Ovum’s Eric Woods (who leaves today to join Chris Dines’ new venture) and Bola Rotibi (joining MWD), and Marta Munoz Mendez-Villamil (who is now at IDC). We also heard that Ed…
Duncan Chapple and Aleksandra Bosnjak have been billed as speakers for for our Informa webinar on the possible sale of the firm. Since both were formerly analysts at Ovum, part of the Informa group, they bring both a personal and professional insight into the challenges facing clients and future buyers of the firm. Aleksandra Bosnjak…
An IIAR survey has prompted the Wikinomics blog to ask “who needs analyst firms anyway“? The article echos some of the themes in Jonny’s article, In praise of open source analysis, which last year discussed the trend for analyst firms to give away their basic research. “Analyst houses” he commented “have been using this model…
AR teams need clarity about the reasons for measurement: different programmes have different objectives, so no single measurement approach will work in every context. That’s the challenge that Lighthouse’s Martin Tilling will be discussing in an IIAR conference call next week. AR professionals need to weigh up what sort of measurement approach will be accepted…